diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2e0bb5605..69e89f107 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
 name = "confluent-kafka"
-version = "2.11.0+gr.1"
+version = "2.11.0+gr.2"
 description = "Confluent's Python client for Apache Kafka"
 classifiers = [
     "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
diff --git a/src/confluent_kafka/cimpl/__init__.py b/src/confluent_kafka/cimpl/__init__.py
index b761cfa87..c9753786e 100644
--- a/src/confluent_kafka/cimpl/__init__.py
+++ b/src/confluent_kafka/cimpl/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
             if not name.startswith("__"):
                 globals()[name] = getattr(module, name)
         break
-    except ModuleNotFoundError:
+    except ImportError:
         pass
 
 if variant is None: